{"id":331,"date":"2008-04-10T09:38:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T23:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2008\/04\/10\/tough-but-holistic\/"},"modified":"2008-04-10T10:25:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T00:25:16","slug":"tough-but-holistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2008\/04\/10\/tough-but-holistic\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough &#8211; but holistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.yourguide.com.au\/images\/viewimages\/?image=429040&amp;size=3&amp;prev=http%3A%2F%2Fcastlehill%2Eyourguide%2Ecom%2Eau%2Farticles%2F1214005%2Ehtml%3Fsrc%3Dtopstories\" align=\"right\" height=\"142\" hspace=\"15\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"213\" \/>JOAN Habkouk will be 25 in June. It&#8217;s only two years since she completed the Mercy Ministries&#8217; program, but it&#8217;s a lifetime away from where she was.The Castle Hill woman had battled eating disorders, depression and self-harm since she was 14.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had tried the public health system and counsellors, but none were beneficial,&#8221; Ms Habkouk said.<\/p>\n<p>Although the 11-month Mercy Ministries program was hard, now she can look back at it through enlightened eyes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was absolutely the best time of my life,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/castlehill.yourguide.com.au\/articles\/1214005.html?src=topstories\" target=\"_blank\">Read more &gt;&gt;\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOAN Habkouk will be 25 in June. It&#8217;s only two years since she completed the Mercy Ministries&#8217; program, but it&#8217;s a lifetime away from where she was.The Castle Hill woman had battled eating disorders, depression and self-harm since she was 14. &#8220;I had tried the public health system and counsellors, but none were beneficial,&#8221; Ms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}